Another Reacher. Two things I noticed about this Reacher.
This Reacher uses a watch unlike the Reacher of 2007 who can intuitively and accurately give the time on the clock.
This Reacher does not pick up an obvious clue given to identify the perpetrator. This makes him a human at the end of it all.
There is still a subtle mellowness about this Reacher...his investigative skills are however sharp and thorough.
He is a thorough gentleman, inspite of his rough ways and tough meanness with criminals, and implicitly believes his employer, in this case, a Hispanic who hires him to be her bodyguard, to protect her from her wife-basher of a husband.
The story takes one on a rough ride...it seems one is there having solved the mystery and then finds that one is not there, nowhere close to it at all ...
Just recommended Lee Child to my son for the long flights home. That is because, the stories are like a nourishing meal that is a solid mouthful and does not disappear or melt before you can say 'Bread'.
Read with interest the blurb which said that Bill Clinton likes these Reacher books.Well, I like the two I've read so far...
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